32 Lincoln's Inn Fields (formerly Her Majesty's Land Registry Building) is an Edwardian Grade II listed building on the on the

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, and an academic facility of the

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(LSE), located on the south side of

Lincoln's Inn Fields Lincoln's Inn Fields is the largest public square in London. It was laid out in the 1630s under the initiative of the speculative builder and contractor William Newton, "the first in a long series of entrepreneurs who took a hand in develo ...

in Central London. The building was built in two stages between 1903 and 1913 to house the Head Office of

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, with the west wing and centre of the building were built between 1903 and 1905, and the east wing was completed in 1912–1913. The Land Registrar Charles Brickdale based the design of the building on

Blickling Hall Blickling Hall is a Jacobean stately home situated in 5,000 acres of parkland in a loop of the River Bure, near the village of Blickling north of Aylsham in Norfolk, England. The mansion was built on the ruins of a Tudor building for Sir Henry ...

in Norfolk. The designs were executed by the Office of Works under Henry Tanner and the supervising architect was Richard Allison. The

London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public university, public research university located in London, England and a constituent college of the federal University of London. Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidn ...

acquired the building in 2010 and converted it into an academic facility, through a £56 million investment. The interior was transformed by the architectural firm Jestico + Whites to include classrooms, two Harvard style lecture theatres, a cafeteria, break out spaces, and a new accessible entrance. The building was opened again in January of 2013, and now houses its Department of Economics and the

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. As of March 2023, the building has been renamed to the Sir Arthur Lewis Building, to commemorate the LSE's first black academic. The building was the exterior set for the Halcyon Hotel in the 2017 World War II television drama

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